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Nothing makes me feel as powerful as writing fanfiction on my commute. I’ll be in public transport in a packed carriage and I’ll be writing scenes. I hope the business woman next to me is reading over my shoulder and enjoying the doctor who fic I’m currently working on I hope she wants to know what happens next.
Sorry not sorry, and with that i mean not even REMOTELY SORRY
allosexual aromantic people are the hottest sexiest thing to ever exist, shoutout. Big shoutout this pride month, have a lovely june
sex isnt real. romance isnt real. apple juice is real and a refreshing treat.
bro what even is Young Sherlock. Who tf decided to give Holmes and Moriarty the ‘homoerotic childhood best friends entwined by fate, the ‘good’ one spilling his first blood for the ‘evil’ one, the ‘evil’ one offering the ‘good’ one to rule the world with him, them becoming archenemies in later life but always quietly yearning for what could’ve been between them if things had turned out differently’ treatment
what tf is this, Thoschei?
Oh I might have to watch this now
being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.
Someone said something about being aroace sometimes feeling like you're missing an important part of a lego set...
I couldn't not draw it
aromantic characters who treat being told ‘i love you’ like it’s a threat, my beloved
aromantic characters who realize someone they’re close to is developing romantic feelings for them and expects them to return those feelings and go into fight or flight mode, my beloved
aromantic characters who feel romance closing on them like a bear trap and would rather chew off their own leg than be caught in it, my beloved
Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.
Who makes the porn bots.
Where do they come from. What do
they hope to achieve.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.
do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?
My voice repeats what
you all say: I love you I
love you I love you.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.
i have a friend who has kinda bad eczema on their right hand but their left hand is fine and thats because acidity makes eczema worse and that includes vaginal acidity and my friend is both a lesbian and a slut so they finger a lot of people and that fucks up the hand they use (their right hand). Anyways do you think BBC sherlock would deduce that by looking at my friend’s hands
nothing couldve prepared me for the last sentence
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If Rizzoli and Isles was made today, I don't know if we would have gotten endgame Rizzles, but I do know that Maura Isles would have absolutely had at least one girlfriend
in the home stretch of the thirteenth doctor's run and while i will fully admit that having never watched any other doctor who ever probably affects my ability to analyze its writing within the context of the rest of the show, the thing is i don't see a lot of people trying to analyze this writing at all. i feel kind of insane about it. the literal only thing i've ever heard people saying is that "jodie whittaker is good but the writing is shit, what a shame." "jodie deserved better writing." "chris chibnall was the worst showrunner and writer in history and destroyed doctor who and should get crushed by a house." okay, like 0.5 degrees less violent but only just.
to me, thirteen's writing is ambitious and uneven and fun and occasionally deeply poignant, and despite sometimes feeling on-the-nose, a lot of that poignancy comes from the stuff that the doctor doesn't say, specifically because that's the whole point of how the thirteenth doctor is written.
but aside from the quality of the writing i can't find anyone talking about what the writing is actually attempting to do.
"there are too many companions" <-- okay, but what are multiple companions attempting to serve for the thematic material of thirteen's run? well, early ideas in thirteen's run are about family and community--not just the cozy happy ideal of chosen family, but also of the sense of obligation (ryan and his biological father in resolution, erik and hanne in it takes you away), the weight of family history (demons of the punjab), the profound duty we have to each other and our planet (yes, even the very uneven orphan 55 and praxeus). ryan, graham, yaz, and the doctor represent this kind of network in microcosm, people who love each other but who also sometimes fail to understand each other, keep secrets from each other, and feel a strain of duty or obligation bound up in that very real care for each other. the "fam" breaking up at the end of the revolution of the daleks is a thematic continuation of the doctor's personal journey through s12, a reflection of the doctor's internal status quo falling apart and her feeling like she belongs nowhere and to nothing. it's great because it's both a triumphant conclusion for ryan and graham (ryan has learned the value of communal care from the doctor and has a purpose, graham embraces the family he's got left), and one of the quietest tragedies for the doctor. she needs a community now more than ever, and she won't ever tell them she needs it. and you can't do that with a single companion, not quite, because then narratively it would become so entangled in that specific dynamic, rather than a dissolution of an entire community.
"the companions are boring" <-- sure, i won't ever find ryan or dan the most compelling characters ever, but what are these characters trying to be for the doctor? grief and loss and anger abound in thirteen's seasons; s11 has grace as the deep, running thread haunting the narrative, and then as the seasons wind on, the doctor becomes more lost, scared, angry, guarded. her companions are, by and large, normal people who care for others--not just care about, but literally give care. ryan starts out pretty shit at this (it takes you away) but then grows through his journey with the doctor to setting up his friend with a support group. graham is defined at first by wanting to care for ryan as his grandfather. dan helps at a food bank. and yaz's whole deal is inspired by the police officer who offered her support when she was at her lowest. these companions reflect all of the doctor's core elements (her grief, her kindness, her value of communities/life), and they also serve to balance out the doctor by being gentle with her. they push her, yes (especially yaz, toward the end), but there's no massive conflicts between them because thirteen's massive conflict is with herself. like there's a reason why the timeless children ends with the doctor's mirror having an unhinged suicidal temper tantrum on the ground. AND SPEAKING OF.
"the timeless children..." <-- no. no! i understand i do not grasp the intricacies of the lore, but in terms of the thematic goals of this run, the timeless children and its fallout was some of the best stuff in concept and execution. "the master should have been the timeless child"? no, that would have made it so much more boring. with the doctor as the timeless child, did the master destroy gallifrey for the suffering their people caused her? because, like the doctor, he's angry that they lied? because he's not entirely himself anymore, because he owes some foundational part of himself to the doctor, and that can't be undone? yes to all of the above! and, in good writing fashion, it's a manifestation of all the same feelings the doctor is having: she's angry that a child suffered, angry that they lied about it, angry that there's a part of herself that she doesn't understand, that's not hers anymore.
and it's where all the previous themes come home to roost too: the exploitation of workers (kerblam, this post is too long to get into that mess, don't at me) and planetary resources (orphan 55 and praxeus, again), the overwriting of truth, creativity, and history (nikolai tesla, ada and noor in spyfall), loss/leaving/abandonment (a true series staple), all of thirteen's messy yearning for and pushing away of community--all of that culminates in a story about a colonialist power using a maybe-abandoned child as a resource for their own idea of progress and lying about it. and that child still kind of calling that colonialist power home, because it was.
AND it's especially infuriating because not only is sealing away the fob watch a fine narrative ending to this arc, half a triumph about defining oneself, half a tragic reflection of thirteen's fear and repression, it's so clear to me that the watch, and the timeless children implications, are this writing team's gift to the next. more possibilities. more story hooks. the doctor contains multitudes, far more than she ever thought or knew. what are they? tag, you're it.
and thasmin, oh my god. i am a very hopeless romantic ace, so even when i hadn't watched this run and was only seeing the queerbaiting accusations flying around in real time, i still didn't get why everyone was so kiss-oriented. and i understand it even less now. the writing was never geared toward the big sweeping kiss because that's not who thirteen is--or rather, that's a step out of her reach right now. she is so deeply hurt and closed off that her emotional triumphs look smaller, conventionally, and yaz is a great partner for her because she's able to understand this and treat these things with the weight they deserve. and everyone has said this but thasmin is paralleling all over the place with the kinds of romance this run emphasizes: the second chance (graham and grace, nick and sarah, adam and jake) (and by the way, from the way people talked about it, i didn't think there was a romance storyline between two men in doctor who until fifteen), the almost (dan and diane, the old couple who didn't get married in orphan 33), the fighting against impossible odds to get back to each other (adam and jake again, bel and vinder, even to some extent umbreen and prem).
anyway there's more stuff here about how if yaz's arc is definitely becoming more like the doctor, for better or worse, then thirteen's arc is on some level about becoming a companion--like many companions, she feels like she's lost and doesn't know who she is. she grapples with being abandoned as a child, much like the doctor (even unintentionally) abandons her companions. she has her agency threatened and taken away and many times has to rely on others to help her (which forces her to actually live those communal values she likes but often fails to uphold for herself--that is a hypocritical feature, not a flaw, in the writing). she literally spends a glorious five minutes as a companion to the fugitive doctor.
anyway, you can criticize the writing for sure but if you just give me a blanket statement about how the writing was shit, i'm pretty sure you don't actually want to talk about the writing. and that's a shame.
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So as an Antarctic expert I need to add to this that we had not in fact been to Antarctica when it was named. The ancient Greeks decided that because there was an Arctic at the top of the world, with bears, there had to be an opposite at the other end, without bears. Which is kind of ridiculous except that the fuckers were dead on
